The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

  Carte-de-visite self-portrait of photographer Alexander Gardner dressed as trapper or mountain man and posing with a bow and arrow, c. 186...

Carte de visite portrait of Jane Kettle taken by photographer J.W. Gilmor of Colchester, England, July 1864. Source: Rijksmuseum.

Carte de visite portrait of a Japanese family, c. 1860-1880. Source: Rijksmuseum.

Carte de visite portrait of a man posing in the excavated ruins of an Ancient Roman building in Pompeii, Italy, c. 1860's. Source: ...

Carte de visite portrait of an American diplomat to Liberia only identified as Chester, c. 1870. By photographer D. C. Burnite of Harrisb...

Carte de visite portrait of a group of recently freed slaves on Cassina Point Plantation on Edisto Island in South Carolina during the Am...

Carte de visite portrait of a woman posing in a reception room of a building on the island of Antigua in the West Indies, c. 1860′s/1870′...

Carte de visite portrait of a Creole man from Sierra Leone, c. 1870′s/1880′s. Source: New York Public Library.

Carte de visite portrait of a couple playing cards as a man reclines in the background, c. 1860′s/1870's. By photographer Joseph B. B...

Carte de visite portrait of a group of unidentified schoolgirls, c. 1870′s. By New York City photographer John G. Müller. Source: New Y...

Carte de visite of American inventor Zadoc Dederick’s steam-powered humanlike walking automaton pulling a cart, c. 1868. By George O. Bed...

Carte de visite portrait of two German peasants, c. 1865-1866. Source: Rijksmuseum.

Carte de visite portrait of an unidentified man believed to be a Dutch sailor taken in the Hague, Netherlands, c. 1879-1883. By Adolphe Z...

Carte de visite portrait of Harriet Tubman by photographer Benjamin F. Powelson of Auburn, New York, c. 1868-1869. Believed to be the ear...

Carte de visite portrait of a group of Chinese women looking at stereoviews, c. 1860. Source: J. Paul Getty Museum.

Carte de visite portrait of Pope Pius IX, c. 1860′s/1870′s. By Paul Emile Pesme. Source: Rijksmuseum.

Carte de visite portrait of German field marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, c. 1870′s. Source: Rijksmuseum.

Carte de visite portrait of a group of Danish officers somewhere in Southern Jutland in Denmark during the Second Schleswig War, 1864. ...

Carte de visite vignette portrait of a woman sewing with a cat on her lap and a man by James G. Stacy of Dover, Maine, c. 1860′s. Sour...

Carte de visite portrait of French historian and politician Achille Jubinal (holding his hat) and a group of journalists posing in front ...